expurgator

NOUN

a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages
Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator

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Kyrie, expurgator scelerum et largitor gratitæ; quæsumus propter nostrasoffensas noli nos relinquere, O consolator dolentis animæ, eleyson (ed. Burntisland, 929). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator

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